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Mike has a dream, a dream that one day in our life time; we all will wake
up to a cohesive world, where no human lives in tension, apprehension or fear
of the other. Indeed, that was the dream of all the spiritual masters of the
world, and that is what the creator wants; all pieces of his creation to
function coherently.

Nothing in the universe will happen by itself, all of us have to do our share
of the work to restore the harmony within our self, with our bodies and with
people around us. Don’t you think God knows this? Yet through every religion,
we are told to ask for it.

Our
founding fathers believed, “That all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” And that dream
was refreshed by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mike
is available to speak to your groups, conduct workshops on building cohesive
work places and living a meaningful life, and move towards living in harmony,
one person at a time.

Thanks to Sean Hannity, Fox News, Syndicated Radio shows, Dallas Morning News,
Huffington Post, and a variety of News Papers here and abroad for giving him a
strong National and local presence. Mike has appeared in over 100 shows on Fox
News and over 50 times on nationally syndicated radio shows.

He has written nearly 3000 articles, and bulk of them are published in
Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, New Age Islam, Op-ed News , Arab Daily
News, Arab News, Saudi Gazette, and several other News papers and periodicals
around the world. Of the 2800, 1000+ were on Islam, 1000+ on Pluralism and the
rest were on politics, India, Pakistan, Israel-Palestine, Motivational and
other topics.

Currently Mike is working on making a film based on a compelling true
story of building a cohesive America, and writing a book on human rights -
"Standing up for others"- standing up from Atheists to Zoroastrians
and every one in between.

God has blessed him with an aptitude for mitigating conflicts and nurturing
goodwill in everything he does, that is think, talk and act, and he
has been a life time volunteer, and it is a joy to maintain a healthy balance
between earning a living and serving the public.

He has spoken at international forums including the Council for a Parliament of
the World’s Religions, in Melbourne, Australia, Middle East Peace Initiative,
in Jerusalem, the International Leadership conference, in Hawaii, and in
Washington, Many Universities including SMU, Rice and others, World's Philanthropy organization's annual conference in Washington
and elsewhere.

He is a member of the Texas Faith panel at Dallas Morning News and writes on
issues facing the nation every week and offers pluralistic solutions. He writes
regularly at Huffington post, Op-ed News, Arab Daily News and several other
papers worldwide.

Mike was a commissioner at City of Carrollton, and president of many
a organizations including North Texas Cricket Association, Indian Creek Home
owners Association, and Dallas Fashions for Charity etc. A founding
member of the board at Memnosyne Foundation, and board of director at Dallas Peace
Center, Dallas Home Builders Association and several other organizations.

God
has made him an instrument in establishing several annual public events to
bring Americans of different religions, ethnicities and races together on
common grounds of building a safe, secure and a cohesive America, among them
are Unity Day USA, Holocaust and Genocides, Thanksgiving Celebrations. We have
and plan to hold workshops and conferences on issues like religion, racism,
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, LGBT, gender pluralism and other issues.

Concerned by the political, civil, religious, racial, sexual orientation and
economic divisiveness, Mike has initiated and formed the America
Together Foundation (ATF), a non-profit entity committed to building a
cohesive America, where no American has to live with anxiety, apprehension, or
fear of the other. The focus of the foundation is that ‘one must be free to
live his or her life to the fullest’.

He firmly believes in our immortal declaration of independence. “We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these
are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed.”

He
believes in Conflict mitigation and goodwill nurturance that Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh) chose in dealing with issues of the day, and he has successfully
employed that ideal in dealing with Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas who
denigrated Quran, which led to a Quran conference in creating goodwill among
non-Muslim clergy. The conference details are at www.QuraanConference.com

When Pastor Terry Jones announced burning 3000 copies of Quran, Mike was out
there in Florida and gathered up the civil, political and religious leaders to
peacefully offer prayer as an alternative instead of burning Qurans to avenge
the 9/11 Victims. A message was sent to the world that freedom of speech is an
important American value and respecting what is sacred to others is an
important value as well. A movie is being considered that will change the
perceptions about Muslims and change within Muslims in dealing with the
conflicts. Full story is at:http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2014/04/reestablishing-right-muslim-attitudes.html

Mike was further involved with the conflicts at the Ground Zero Mosque, Peter
King Hearings and other conflicts, and had offered pluralistic solutions. There
is a blog for each one of these conflicts.

As
much work as he has done with interfaith communities, he has a strong presence
in the intra-faith dialogue as well. Having moderated two major
intra-faith conferences at Rice University and in Dallas, and two Sharia
conferences were held to allay the Sharia Phobia. He has prayed in all
mosques, and wrote a blog on Ramadan sharing the practices in each tradition.
There is a blog for it – www.RamadanExclusive.com

Mike
started the Radio for Desi community in Dallas in 1996 with three hours on
Saturdays, and passed it on to others, and now we have three 24/7
Radio Stations in Dallas. It was always loaded with interfaith programs. Mike
ran a program called wisdom of religion, all religions for two years – where
520 Hours of Radio talk was done – 100 hours + for Islam, Hinduism and
Christianity each, and 50 hours each for Baha’i, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism,
Zoroastrianism, Atheism, interfaith and other traditions. The idea was to
education and to learn about others, as God has willed in Quran 49:13 and other
verses. Similarly 26 workshops were also conducted.

Mike
is a human rights activist, and his book standing up for others will be
out soon. He is also producing a feature film “Sacred" to
be released and a documentary "Americans
together" to be released in the next few years.

All
about him is listed in 63 links at www.MikeGhouse.net and
his writings are at www.TheGhousediary.com - Mike is committed to building
cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the
day.

Ramadan
Cohesion - Never before in the history of Muslims, a Muslim has visited all the
mosques of all different denominations to build understanding between different
traditions.http://ramadanexclusive.blogspot.com/